Inspirational music video: Oceans - Seafret

Seafret's tear jerking music video, featuring Maisie Williams, explores themes of bullying, escapism and coming of age, the latter being similar to our own video.

Two main locations are contrasted in this video - indoors/at home and outdoors/in the park. The lighting and costume create a contrast with the protagonist and her surroundings, highlighting her desire to escape her miserable life. We have used the same locations and elements of her costume in a similar attempt to contrast Tayla's daily life with the scenes of her 'escaping' in the forest.

A range of close ups are used, showing the protagonists emotions. This makes the narrative storyline more captivating as the audience feel engaged, following her journey. This is something we could think about, especially in the forest scenes, to grip our audience.

The diegetic sound at the beginning of the video works really well to set the tone of the video and introduce the characters story. We could try this, as it would work well to draw the audience's attention to the themes portrayed in our video. The video has a narrative focus, however the lyric 'we hide our emotions' corresponds with a shot of the girl putting her costume on (below). It seems Seafret's narrative was derived from an abstract perspective of the lyrics, much like ours.

"we hide our emotions"

Mirrors are also frequently shown throughout the video, conforming to Andrew Goodwin's 'notion of looking' - the large bedroom mirror in particular is used to show the character gaining perspective of her own image. This is a technique which we have conformed to in our own video, to represent our performers conflicting thoughts.

Here is the (very emotional) full video: